Unable to see the product short description meta field at the store front

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Hello We have recently migrated from wordpress to shopify but the meta field of short description is not at all shown at the storefront. Please help me to add the same. The type is multi line text for all products. But unable to see in storefront.Please help

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You can refer to this article to learn how to add a meta field and make it appear on your store.
https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/custom-data/metafields

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Perhaps you are not placing the data in the right field.

Try downloading your product variant data in csv format and see where the meta field short description should be. Then place the existing data in that field. To customize the export file you can use a free app called mixtable exporter.

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Since you migrated from Wordpress, it’s worth nothing that Shopify handles descriptions differently.

If you are using an Online Store 2.0 theme, you can simply use the dynamic source button in the theme editor to link your multi line text meta field to a text book.

However, if you are on a custom theme, you might need to add a small snippet of liquid code to your main-product.liquid file. It would look something like this: {{ product.metafields.custom.short_description | newline_to_br }}

Are you using a standard Shopify theme, or is it a custom-coded one?

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I am using sense theme and already the meta field is created with a multi line text field but still it is not visible.

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Hi,

Hope this will help

  • First confirm the metafield setup
  • Online Store 2.0 themes add metafield to your product template
  • Some older or heavily customized themes won’t show metafields automatically. In that case edit the product template file and insert metafield output where you want it to display
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Hi @madhumita

Shopify meta fields don’t show automatically—you need to add them to your theme. Either use the theme editor to insert the short description meta field on product pages, or edit the product template and add:

{{ product.metafields.namespace.key }}
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Hello kindly check the meta field and all the settings i am sending the images

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Online Store → Themes → … → Edit code
sections/main-product.liquid
Where to paste:
Find the product title line, usually:

liquid
Copy code

{{ product.title }}

Paste directly BELOW it: liquid Copy code {% if product.metafields.custom.short_description != blank %}
{{ product.metafields.custom.short_description | metafield_text }}
{% endif %} kindly let me know.this way is correct or not?
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Hi @madhumita

You have the ability to show your short description metafield by customizing your theme’s product template. Under product, add a block or liquid code like {{ product.metafields.namespace.key }} where ‘namespace’ and ‘key’ are your metafield namespace and key. Place the block in the body of your template or in a visible section of the template, and clear your cache to view the block.

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@SealSubs-Roan can you please elaborate where i need to add this liquid code or block in shopify. Is it inside the edit theme…→ edit code→liquid code or somewhere else in the product code. Please elaborate and if you can guide me using a mp4 or image format it will be better. Sorry I know i am asking more but I am telling you this as I am new to Shopify.

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Thanks I have added the code


{{ product.title }}

{% if product.metafields.custom.short_description != blank %}

{{ product.metafields.custom.short_description }}
{% endif %} Below the product title in the product template and my problem is solved now. Thanks so much all of you for your help & instant replies..
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Glad to hear it, as courtesy to all who gave you their time will you please mark someone’s answer as the solution.
Thanks.